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By Hillary Rodham Clinton | Washington Post | September 4, 2014
When Americans look around the world today, we see one crisis after another. Russian aggression in Ukraine, extremism and chaos in Iraq and Syria, a deadly epidemic in West Africa, escalating territorial tensions in the East and South China seas, a global economy that still isnt producing enough growth or shared prosperity the liberal international order that the United States has worked for generations to build and defend seems to be under pressure from every quarter. Its no wonder so many Americans express uncertainty and even fear about our role and our future in the world.
In his new book, World Order, Henry Kissinger explains the historic scope of this challenge. His analysis, despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administrations effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.
During the Cold War, Americas bipartisan commitment to protecting and expanding a community of nations devoted to freedom, market economies and cooperation eventually proved successful for us and the world. Kissingers summary of that vision sounds pertinent today: an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance.
...Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels...
Complete Review: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html
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Hillary Clinton most effective secretary of state: Henry Kissinger
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had nothing but praise for Hillary Rodham Clinton on her own leadership of the department, even going so far as to say she did a better job than he did.
Ive known her for many years now and I respect her intellect, Mr. Kissinger, 91, told USA Today. And she ran the State Department in the most effective way that Ive ever seen.
Even better than he did?
Yes, Mr. Kissinger replied. I was more chaotic.
Mr. Kissingers kudos comes on the heels of Mrs. Clintons own gift of high praise for his newly released book, World Order....
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/10/henry-kissinger-touts-hillary-clinton-most-effecti/
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Watch Henry Kissinger (and Biden, Kerry, Clinton, Bush and even Nixon) talk about the "New World Order"
"It's time to actually create a New World Order" - VP Joe Biden, April 5, 2013
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,704 posts)does not especially inspire me to support her as a presidential candidate. That old criminal ought to be in jail instead of happily receiving kudos from Hillary. Or anybody.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Such praise from a war criminal isn't very inspiring imo.
benz380
(534 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)the wall of text is coming
Scuba
(53,475 posts)They throw us a few crumbs and tell us to shut up if we complain. Both sides use the civil rights issues to divide us and placate us (while keeping the other side angry). Meanwhile, they're both robbing us blind and giving our pensions and tax dollars to the oligarchs who own them.
When the derivatives market next crashes (have you noticed the price of gas lately?) and Wall Street needs another taxpayer bailout, Republicans will be able to go on TV and honestly say "Democrats did this."
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and expressing admiration for a genocidal war criminal would make you unelectable, by Democrats at least...
Scuba
(53,475 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)cpwm17
(3,829 posts)I'd expect her to suck up and admire the world's worst living monster from the 20th century: Henry Kissinger.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)example.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)won't know this.
Economic liberalism is the economic component of classical liberalism.[1] It is an economic philosophy that supports and promotes laissez-faire economics and private property in the means of production. Proponents of economic liberalism believe political freedom and social freedom are inseparable with economic freedom, and use philosophical arguments promoting liberty to justify economic liberalism and the free market. Although economic liberalism can be supportive of government regulation to a certain degree, it tends to oppose government intervention in the free market that inhibits free trade and competition. Economic liberalism contrasts with mercantilism, the social market model, economic planning, socialism,[2] and fascist third-way economics.[3] https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Economic_liberalism.html
bhikkhu
(10,716 posts)I'd need a refresher on exactly how evil Kissinger is supposed to be. His ideas sound reasonable at the moment.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)killed between 1969 and 1973, and about 20,000 American GIs. The same basic deal was on the table in '69 that was signed in '73, but Nixon and Kissinger had to show how tough they were and dragged the process out so it could be concluded in the nick of time for the 1972 elections.
Kissinger was the man behind the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende, the duly elected President of Chile, and was responsible for the installation of General Pinochet and his subsequent reign of terror, torture, murder and disappearances. And the imposition of the economic shock doctrine that followed Allende's assassination.
Kissinger is one of the most evil SOBs of the late 20th century. On a par with the likes of Pol Pot, though not in the same class, it must be admitted, as Mao, Stalin and Hitler from the preceding era. He is a monster in human form.
Marr
(20,317 posts)That's Conventional Wisdom if ever it were.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Employing evidence based on firsthand testimony, unpublished documents, and new information uncovered by the Freedom of Information Act, and using only what would hold up in international courts of law, THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER outlines atrocities authorized by the former secretary of state in Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus, East Timor, and in the plight of the Iraqi Kurds, "including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture."
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)several of THEM are being brought to justice, finally.
Autumn
(45,089 posts)He could get arrested if he got on the wrong plane.
benz380
(534 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)than anyone else remaining from the 20th century. A man who, to this day, cannot set foot in a number of countries throughout the world without running the risk of being arrested as a war criminal.
And her other BFFs are Goldman Sachs' top execs.
And this woman has the colossal gall to call herself a Democrat?
NO MORE THIRD WAY BULLSHIT and this means YOU, Hillary.
benz380
(534 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)do something so nauseating and barf-worthy. ugh.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)And a few people around here wonder how I could possibly say I would NEVER vote for this woman.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)as I have good, real Democrats like Keith Ellison to vote for. But HRC? No effin' way. No, nae, never. EVER.
Autumn
(45,089 posts)benz380
(534 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)vote in the general election either. God deliver us from evil people and those who would hold hands with them.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Nothing is more important than making sure she or another Third Way corporatist in a Democrat suit is not shoved down our throats by corporate Democrats as the 2016 Democratic nominee. If corporatists can do that, they will have ensured continuation of their predatory, antidemocratic, anti-99 percent agenda no matter who is elected.
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